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platoon personnel of a mortuary affairs collection
company to more rapidly receive, store, process, and
evacuate remains and personal effects at the collection
point. Mortuary affairs units will begin receiving the
MIRCS in late 2009.
REALIGNMENTS SWITCH ARMY DEPOT
SUPPLY FUNCTIONS TO DLA
The Army will transfer the management of supply,
storage, and distribution (SS&D) functions at three
of its maintenance depots to the Defense Logistics
Agency (DLA) by 15 September 2011. The affected
Army depots are Anniston, Alabama; Corpus Christi,
Texas; and Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania.
The transfer, directed by the 2005 Base Closure
and Realignment Commission, is part of a larger
consolidation of SS&D functions and associated
inventories with those of the supporting military
services’ industrial activities. While SS&D management
of the Army maintenance depots’ inventories
will transfer to DLA, the Army will continue
to procure and maintain ownership of materials for
use in depot maintenance missions.
The transfer will support the Army’s efforts to
develop a collaborative, integrated, “end-to-end”
Army and DLA supply chain. The Army will be
the last service to go through the transition since it
is in the process of converting legacy maintenance
depot automated management information systems
to the Logistics Modernization Program enterprise
resource plan. The Air Force is shifting its SS&D
functions to DLA during fiscal year 2008, followed
by the Navy in late 2008 and 2009, the Marine Corps
in 2009 and 2010, and Army in 2010 and 2011.
EMERGENCY VEHICLES TO BE DELIVERED
TO AFGHANISTAN IN DECEMBER
The Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command
has awarded a 3-year contract to Pierce Manufacturing
Inc., an Oshkosh Corporation company, to
build emergency response vehicles. The company
will initially build 68 Pierce minipumper fire emergency
vehicles for use in Operation Enduring Freedom
by U.S. Soldiers and the Afghan National Police.
The first vehicles are scheduled for delivery to Kabul,
Afghanistan, in December.
The vehicles are designed for emergency medical
services, fire response, and rescue operations in
the mountainous Afghan terrain. The vehicles are
built on Ford Super Duty F550XL frames and have
325-horsepower engines. Each vehicle is equipped
with a side-mounted control panel that manages a
General Dynamics Land System employees strip slat armor off a Stryker vehicle from the 4th Stryker
Brigade Combat Team, 2d Infantry Division. Five thousand pounds of slat armor had been installed on
the brigade’s 280 Stryker vehicles in preparation for its surge north in Iraq last year. The 4th BCT saw
extensive combat in the province of Diyala. The deslatting, which occurred in June at Camp Arifjan,
Kuwait, prepared the vehicles to be refurbished and further employed under the Army Reset Program.
(Photo by Jim Hinnant, 401st Army Field Support Brigade)
NOVEMBER–DECEMBER 2008